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A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory after two years of war with Israel.
Without active and continuous deterrence, ISIS forces may look to take advantage of the deteriorating security and governance situation in areas formerly under their control.
After the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, Iraq faced the challenge of rebuilding the state first and foremost, along with political, economic, and social challenges that needed to be addressed in order to strengthen national identity. This was in order to contain the charged social and regional divisions alongside the behavior of the previous regime, which reached its peak interaction with the American invasion of Iraq. Moreover, terrorism represented a unique problem for Iraq that competed with and topped other issues through two waves that later spawned sectarian fighting, turning Iraq into a focal point for extremist Islamic groups and armed factions that emerged to fight the American presence and undermine the ongoing democratic process.
After several days of terror alerts, Israel announced that it launched Operation Breaking Dawn on Aug. 5 as part of an effort to reduce threats posed by the Iranian-armed and funded Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Gaza Strip, which had been planning a significant terror attack against the Jewish state.
Several Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets in the northern Gaza Strip were struck. Among the terrorists killed in the strike were Taysir al-Jabari, a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander who was in charge of the group’s rocket arsenal and primary coordinator with Hamas.
Key Points – Israel’s F-16I “Sufa” (Storm) multi-role fighters likely played a crucial role in “Operation Rising Lion,” the massive air assault on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure that began on June 12th.
-Flying alongside F-35I and F-15I jets, the F-16Is surely launched follow-on strikes against hardened targets like the Natanz enrichment facility, using precision-guided munitions such as the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb.
Pakistani media have reported that a high-level delegation from Islamabad will travel to Kabul on Tuesday for talks focused on security, trade, and the recent ceasefire agreement with the Taliban.
The visit comes after Pakistan and the Taliban signed an immediate ceasefire deal Saturday evening, following Qatar- and Turkey-mediated negotiations in Doha aimed at de-escalating tensions after deadly border clashes.
India has officially restored its full diplomatic presence in Afghanistan, upgrading its Technical Mission in Kabul to the level of an embassy, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Tuesday.
The decision follows recent discussions during the visit of Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister to New Delhi, marking a renewed phase in India-Afghanistan relations. The MEA said the move reflects India’s “resolve to deepen its bilateral engagement with the Afghan side in all spheres of mutual interest.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (4th L) and National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Chief Ibrahim Kalin (3rd L) meet with Hamas Leadership Council Chairman Mohammed Ismail Darwish (4th R) and members of Hamas’ Political Bureau in Doha, Qatar on October 21, 2025. [Turkish Foreign Ministry – Anadolu Agency]
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin on Tuesday met with Mohammed Ismail Darwish, the head of Hamas’ Shura Council, and Hamas political bureau members in Qatar, Anadolu reports.
The meeting took place in the Qatari capital Doha, Turkish diplomatic sources said.
Further details of the talks have yet to be disclosed.
“We are charting something like the fever curve of society,” journalism professor Thomas Hestermann said of his new study, “Crime and Migration: Perception in German Media,”
which examined how the nationality and ethnicity of crime suspects has been reported since 2007.
Hestermann’s team at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg compiled their 2025 findings for the Berlin-based Mediendienst Integration, a research service for journalists that focuses on migration, integration and asylum. The results, published on Friday, are alarming: “Foreign suspects are mentioned about three times more often than their share in police statistics.”
Immigrants or refugees do not have a higher tendency to commit crime and there is no correlation between the proportion of immigrants in a given district and the local crime rate, according to a new analysis of the latest German crime statistics carried out by the renowned ifo institute.
The Muslim Brotherhood, once Egypt’s largest opposition movement and a standard-bearer for Islamist groups around the world, has been once again driven underground as Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has consolidated power.
Introduction
The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt’s oldest and largest Islamist organization, with offshoots throughout the Arab world. The Brotherhood renounced violence in the 1970s and earned popular support by providing social services such as pharmacies, hospitals, and schools.